CAPERS, VALERIE

CAPERS, VALERIE. Jazz pianist/College professor (1937 in New York, New York). She came from a musical family: her father, Alvin Capers , was a professional jazz pianist, and her brother Robert (Bobby) played tenor saxophone and flute in the Ramon (Mongo) Santamaria band. She studied piano as a child. She became blind when she was six years old and attended the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind, where she continued to study piano along with her other studies...